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What did I buy??
- Thread starter Fndrgrl
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Let's see...
Person has trouble identifying a piece of gear. Check.
Joins website to gather some insight. Check.
Gets ridiculed for crappy photos and reason behind purchase. Check.
Thread continues with tomfoolery and shenanigans. Check.
Yep, looks like I'm in the right place.
Person has trouble identifying a piece of gear. Check.
Joins website to gather some insight. Check.
Gets ridiculed for crappy photos and reason behind purchase. Check.
Thread continues with tomfoolery and shenanigans. Check.
Yep, looks like I'm in the right place.
And even you said they were crappy, is that a form of ridicule?
On the other hand at least she hopefully isn't going to use those photos if she wants to list it.
That was true right up until the 1966 Bassman and Bandmaster amps. They used the larger cab on it because everyone was standing their '65 and earlier cabinets on end to make them taller and putting the piggyback head on top of it. The head was wider than the cab at that point and looked a bit T-shaped because of the amp hanging over the edges. In 1966, Fender used the same sized cab that they used for the Dual-Showman but put 12" speakers into it instead of 15" ones. That large cab would just eat those 12" speakers when you turned the amp up above #7.
And yes, the '66 and later did indeed have those three handles. The '65 and earlier, which were smaller cabinets, just had the one handle you're thinking of. By the way, my 1966 Fender Bassman cost $449 brand new in 1966. In 1971 I got $400 on it as a trade in (even though one or more tubes had gone microphonic) because the Fender black-face amps were already more desirable than the silver face.
I... I meant "crappie," like... the fish. The photos are fishy. You know... like, how bass can also be bass... I... I gotta go. Good luck, OP!And even you said they were crappy, is that a form of ridicule?
Back in the 60's and early 70's bass players were big burly men who had day jobs like lumberjack or cattle puncher. They could carry two 8x10s in one hand while rolling a cigarette in the other. They drove trucks with manual transmissions and didn't bother with a shifter. They just reached into the gear box and pushed the gears into place. If they needed a pick and didn't have one, they'd just pull out a thumbnail and use that. Do you know why Godzilla never attacked any place where a band was playing?
Band vans weren't big because they had to carry a lot of gear. Guitar players were scared of them and always turned their amps down just at the sound of their footsteps coming over the hill.
And that is the legend of "WELCOME to TALKBASS!"
...or some personal knowledge/experience of that particular model cabinet, which I'm sure is what the OP was hoping for.
A few people have already suggested posting better quailty photos, so OP knows this would help. There's no need for others to keep adding sarcastic comments about the original shots, or the OP personally. We'll only frighten her(?) off (and show her how arrogant and condescending bass players can be) and we'll never get to the bottom of this mystery.
Gaolee
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I put Squier logos on things for the same reason. It works every time.I used to put Fender logos on my Silvertone cabs to impress people
I haven't read the whole thread - did anybody ask whether it has an open back or a sealed back? I'm guessing it's a decent cabinet, whatever it is. Maybe it has been painted? Drivers replaced, or one of them anyway. The cabinet might be fine with appropriate replacement drivers. I'm actually curious about it now, too.
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If someone is so easily offended about others pointing out the pictures posted are blurry and not really helpful, then I truly feel sorry for them. Facts are facts, if someone posted blurry out of focused pictures of a Bass and asked for help identifying it, we would ask for better pictures. Maybe the butt hurt thread isn't so out of line.
In this time of technology and ease of posting a decent picture, it seems that it's not an insult or sarcastic to ask for a better image. It's not like the OP had to send in a Polaroid to a magazine, or wait 5 days for her pictures to be developed.
So if the OP got scared away, that's really too bad.
I, still, see this as a 2-12 cab with one handle on it, Yes, I have super powers. Until proven otherwise. 
Note the single handle at the top center of the cab; what looks, to some, as two other handles, I believe to be supports for the rear seat headrests.
Until proven otherwise. Note the single handle at the top center of the cab; what looks, to some, as two other handles, I believe to be supports for the rear seat headrests.
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